At Beaulieu.
A bus that should have enough driver ventilation for @MonitorGold10.
An upgrade on a Tesla.
And a piece of core popular culture from way back that I hadn’t thought about in years.
A bus that should have enough driver ventilation for @MonitorGold10.
An upgrade on a Tesla.
And a piece of core popular culture from way back that I hadn’t thought about in years.
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Off to the Lake District for a short stay, but decided to visit some old family haunts and have a stop over in Liverpool for the night. Booked the Adelphi even with the poor reviews, I just remember taking my great uncle there for lunch once and he thought it was the poshest day ever.
We booked a suite as the rooms were dirt cheap, definitely faded grandeur but the rooms brilliant value for money. Found a nice tapas place for dinner
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If that’s Lunya then you’re 5 minutes walk from the best pub in town - The Bridewell
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Couldn’t work out the distant singing and chanting.
Who’s playing tonight?
Turns out Palace won big.
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Sarf Lunon and proud 
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Observe, should you care, some dots. They mark the position of the guillotine in the place du concord.
Many heads were taken here - it is currently so hot I actually envy them
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Once upon a time Broad Street in Oxford would have been cobbled. Now it’s almost entirely tarmaced. But they did leave a few of the cobbles including the ones forming a cross
which marks exactly where Queen ‘Bloody’ Mary had bishops Latimer and Ridley and, a few months later, archbishop Cranmer burned alive over a detail of whether the communion bread and wine really were the body and blood of Christ. Before the street was ‘pedestrianised’ a few years ago you’d have to risk being hit by a bus if you wanted a close look. Now you’ll just be mown down by bikes or scooters.
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I thought the exact place was now inside a sandwich shop.
Well a pyre for two would have been a good deal bigger than the cobble cross and Broad Street is, er, at its least broad just there. So when I say ‘exactly’ I can’t be sure to within maybe 10-20m. The cross is almost certainly closer to the bonfire than Martyr’s Memorial, which is Victorian and actually round the corner.
Speed’s map
which dates from 50 years after the event shows Balliol College, which hasn’t moved since, and the city wall which has been replaced by the block with the sandwich shop in it. If the tradition of executing folks ‘without a city wall’ was followed then it would have happened pretty close to Balliol.
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Peri menopause and puberty meet in the back of a tuc tuc. Moments after this their attentions turned to a hapless fat man. Consulting the life skill rosta it was clear just throwing myself out the side would be the way to go - no signature commando roll just a painless splat…. 36 degrees this is the quality of thought
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Must have been past that cross 100’s of times - Never noticed it Went past it for Blackwells and the scout Shop
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Similar - I just thought it was poor road maintenance.
Explains the angry whispering I hear throughout the dark, still hours of the night… 
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I think that’s a case of two things being true at the same time. What a bodge!
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The story about telling tourists that Martyrs’ Memorial (see above) is actually the top of the spire of a completely buried church and that they can get access to the church by going down the steps in the St Giles traffic island a few yards to the north was doing the rounds when I was a student. The steps, of course, led down to the rather picturesque public toilets back then. Bizarrely they now take you down to a boutique hotel. The Tripadvisor reviews are, um, mixed, to say the least.
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Remembering our wedding anniversary (ahem @mickbald).
I bought Hel the new David Beckham shrub rose, and she got me a new pyrex dish, which was nice.
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Happy Anniversary Wayne (and Hel) 
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Well that’s two pay days come and gone. I think I can whistle for that one for the foreseeable.
It wasn’t a large amount, which makes it even weirder.
He went no contact just before the last pay day. I can’t help you if you won’t talk to me mate.
Daddy, yes son. “What’s a can can dancer”?. They are most excellent son and great fu… owww. It appears Mr MWS take on the matter is quite different to mine. my heat swollen, stamped on toe is ruddy angry at me too now. - one day I will win. I have no idea when this mythical day will arrive but surely, surely there’s a chance non?
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Once a year whilst having a sort out under the stairs,I pull this out to see if it magically has mended itself from the previous year.
Just realised that the idler wheel was getting trapped under the platter,so just got a knife to poke it back under.
It has a 4 pin din lead,so can’t try it out.
These were used in hmv shops in the 50s/60s. No money value,but a nice bit of the uks music history.
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